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Depose

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

To deprive an individual of a public employment or office against his will.

Wolfflus, Inst. § 1063.

The term is usually applied to the deprivation of all authority of a sovereign. To give a deposition.